So who was surprised at the ending? (spoiler)

innocent_demon said:

iHate d endiNg..!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
iLOve kiRi...!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
she's been sUppoRting hiROki aLL the time..untiL d eNd.. even the painting fOr eLIse..and the whOLe seRies sHOwing thaT onicHan (HirOki) loves kiRi and then baaaannnngggg! shooooooTtt! the one he ends up with is hiS cOUSIN..!
weHHhhhhhhhhhhh......
wHat d hecK..huhu..

iHate hiROki..!

lol..im sori .. im just carried awEi..hahaha

multi said:


Kiri was only supporting Hiroki in becoming a teacher. The one who support his art career is Elis (and also the acting superintendent, Saya). Kiri hardly done anything to make Hiroki draw again. She only waited for Hiroki to pick up his brush. OTOH, Elis push him to draw most of the times.

You said that Kiri is supporting Hiroki to paint for Elis? I disagree with that. If what you said is true, why would Kiri told Elis to just wait for Hiroki to paint again? Why didn't she ask Hiroki to paint for Elis in the first place?

The thing is Kiri realized that she was losing her grip on Hiroki. And she finally knew that Hiroki decided to choose Elis. Therefore she had no choice but to give up on him. The painting that Hiroki makes is not only for Elis. It's also for himself. He decided to paint out his true feeling for Elis.

The whole series had show that Hiroki hardly done anything to approach Kiri. It was the other way around. Kiri keep on chasing Hiroki but Hiroki didn't make any move on her. And when is the time when Hiroki thought that much about Kiri? I can recall that in episode 10, Hiroki only cared about Kiri's bentou not Kiri.

I think that most viewers are seeing too much of Elis' thought about Hiroki & Kiri relationship. That's why not many people are able to see Hiroki's true feeling. As one would say, 'There's too much mud on the road to see the breadcrumbs'. The clues are lying here & there but not many people notice them or take them seriously. As a result, viewers are surprise & clueless about what's going on.

Perhaps that some people had too much expectation on how it will end. I can tell from here & there that most people (even some Elis' fans) expect Hiroki to end up with Kiri based on the set-up & progress of the story. When that expectation doesn't meet, they beginning to feel that the ending doesn't makes sense to them & felt that they're being betray by the storywriters. But somehow, viewers must realize that the one who betray them are none other than themselves.

When watching an anime, we must know that our position are as viewers, not the storywriters. Sure that you can try to figure out how the story goes & how it will end but the one who decide the storyline & the ending are the writers not us viewers. So I don't think that the viewers are in any position to say how it SHOULD end because viewers say so. It's like watching people in the real world. Who choose who is not for you to decide.

Alas, it's hard to accept the ending, not while viewers are being control by their fanboy / fangirl ego.

setsuna91 said:
i think this anime is a good one
actually i feel surprised too with that twist ending
I never thought that after the very smooth way of kiri, then it suddenly become the winning of elis

about which is better between kiri and elis
i think both of them is cool, and mature character
I feel that elis is grown up unexpectedly and become a cool mature girl
since in the earlier chapter she was so childish and onichan-mania
i like elis in the last chapters

about the ending, i feel pity of kiri's fate
she has always loved hiroki and what does she get at the ending is very sick
and the fact that elis and hiroki are a sibling also make me said that kiri is the best for hiroki

but if only hiroki and elis weren't a sibling afterall, i'll vote for Elis ^^
i loved and appriciate her pure love, and her mature decision to let away her love and go to paris

Goodtimes420 said:
I thought the ending was good but I HATE THE FACT it took till the last minute of the episode for them to hook up and Kiri just ANNOYED me so much I didn't like her character at all. Elis has a MUCH better personality then that dumb Kiri and Elis is much better looking but that's my opinion I just HATE short hair on girls. I'm glad he ended up with Elis I just wished it could of happened sooner.

Faust721 said:
they are cousins so that's fine, but my problem was the complete 360. I mean, wth, all of a sudden from what looks like a solid Kiri ending we get an Elis one.

Ragna92 said:
Finally a show where I was wrong about the ending. 8/10. They need more shows like this, but they shouldn't of done it in the last 5 minutes at least a few eps before.

Meddigo said:
I've rewritten the ending in my head where Ellis gets hit by a truck and Kiri ends up with the main character as it should have been.

Torisunanohokori said:


Ditto. That ending was kind of an ass pull, if not directly in the last episode, then in the last 4. The first 20 episodes of the series did a good job of portraying Hiroki-Elis as a parent-child type relationship, and that made way more sense the way the series actually went.

Torisunanohokori said:
I took the scene where he was fantasizing about living together with Kiri, and the worries about Elis to be a result of the very visible tension between her and Kiri. I guess it's possible to read those scenes differently, but your interpretation feels like a stretch.

This show still doesn't have the worst ending I've seen by far, and it had a lot of quality points towards the middle, but it was definitely badly handled. Even if they were going to go with Elis in the end, which I find a questionable thesis at best, they could've done without Hiroki standing up Kiri at the hotel.

Shuusuke and Hagu actually made sense in context, because that was actually a show about art as much as it was about relationships. As did the Akane-iro ending, frankly (if anything, what pissed me off more there was that Yuuhi came back in the end credits).

Your metaphors really have nothing to do with what you're saying. If you have a point to make, please just say it rather than waxing prosaic about it.

insan3soldiern said:
Frankly I remember it being as obvious a conclusion as Shuffles ending. The signs were there.

Torisunanohokori said:


Ditto. That ending was kind of an ass pull, if not directly in the last episode, then in the last 4. The first 20 episodes of the series did a good job of portraying Hiroki-Elis as a parent-child type relationship, and that made way more sense the way the series actually went.

T3rm1n4t0r2 said:
Wow I really can't believe how many people are satisfied with that completely random ending. Many are like: "Well ya know life is unexpected and it doesn't always work out the way you want it to". But this goes completely beyond unexpected. It just doesn't make sense. Whether or not I or anyone else wanted Kiri and Hiroki to end up together is besides the fact that throughout the entire series there were almost ZERO signs that Hiroki also loved Elis in return. And then he has a complete 180 change of heart which is outrageously sudden and out of the blue. If they had at least shown some signs that Hiroki also felt the same way about Elis then it would've been easier to understand. But for 23 episodes we see Hiroki only looking towards Kiri. So that final make out scene between Elis and Hiroki is shocking, unsystematic and just too much of sudden shift to make sense. He even rejects Elis once because he only wants to be family with her and nothing else. Also why would he become Kiri's girlfriend, according to him, if he was in love with elis the whole time.

Anyways, in submission to the outrageous Canvas 2 ending we learn that all those times when we see Hiroki daydreaming hes been thinking about doing his cousin (incest) and the entire time hes been a closet lolicon (theres about an 8 year age difference).

Grimwolf said:
I felt like the ending was somewhat obvious towards the last couple episodes. First of all, in most Anime like this, when the main guy starts dating a girl before the last episode he usually doesn't end up with her. And as soon as you heard about all this France stuff? Should've been obvious he would rush to the airport in dramatic fashion to confess his feelings.

Also, I got the sense throughout the series that we were getting a lot stronger of a connection to Elis. I'll be honest, I didn't even really feel all that bad for Kiri in the end. I mean I just didn't feel to much for her whereas with Elis, who I originally hated in the beginning, I felt constantly so bad for her. The writers would not put you through SO many of those moments if they were gonna give her the bad ending, it just doesn't make much sense.

Oh and also, in the end remember; Hiroki rejected Kiri in high school. He says "There was someone better" but we don't really know anything beyond that. Was it for Yanagi? Or maybe because of Elis? We also don't even know what he said in response to her when she said it again on the roof. All we know is that it seemingly was going "well" and nothing more.

My only qualm with it is that they're cousins, like I wish it could've been that she was like a friend of the family whose parents died instead. But its Anime, and incest isn't as uncommon as it should be.